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WordPress Multisite Administration

By : Tyler Longren
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WordPress Multisite Administration

By: Tyler Longren

Overview of this book

WordPress is an incredibly popular blogging platform. Few people realize that the software behind WordPress.com, which is a standalone WordPress with multisite enabled, is available for free, for anyone to make use of. WordPress Multisite is a special “mode” built into WordPress, which allows you to create a network of multiple websites, all running on a single installation of WordPress. WordPress Multisite Administration is an easy-to-understand book filled with information, tips, and best practices to help you create and manage a blog network similar to http://wordpress.com/, by using WordPress Multisite. WordPress Multisite Administration will take you through all the steps necessary to get WordPress Multisite installed and configured on your server. It covers everything from installation and initial configuration to customizations and some helpful troubleshooting tips. You will also learn how to build your own blog directory that features the authors in your WordPress Multisite network. The blog directory is built by making use of WordPress child themes, an incredibly useful thing to know how to do. You'll learn everything you need to know about running and maintaining a WordPress Multisite installation.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
WordPress Multisite Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing WordPress


We'll start the WordPress installation wizard with the web browser. I like to use Google Chrome but any web browser should work. So, open your browser and navigate to your multisite installation URL. I installed WordPress multisite at a subdomain of my main longren.org domain name, but you can use a subdirectory too, such as http://www.longren.org/multisite/.

Once you've opened your site you'll see a window as shown in the following screenshot. This is where you can set the name of the site as well as choose your administrative username and password. The default administrative username in WordPress is admin but I highly suggest that you change that to something else. A lot of WordPress web attacks try to exploit the default administrative account name, so not having an admin user puts you in a better position security-wise.

That is the only page where you need to enter any information in the WordPress installation wizard. In the next screenshot, you can see what the page in the previous screenshot should look like after you've filled everything out.

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After you've filled everything out and chosen a username anything other than the admin term, click on the Install WordPress button at the bottom of that page. After clicking on Install WordPress, you'll see a Success ! message along with your chosen username. As you can see in the following screenshot, your password isn't shown on the screen:

Once you're on the Success! page, you can click on the Log In button. You'll be taken to your WordPress login page, located at /wp-login.php or http://multisite.longren.org/wp-login.php in my example. You can also navigate to /wp-admin/ or http://multisite.longren.org/wp-ad min/, to log in to your WordPress Dashboard window. The default login page can be seen in the following screenshot. The login screen can be changed visually through the use of plugins or custom settings for your WordPress theme.

Enter the Username and Password values that you chose when going through the WordPress installation wizard to get logged in. Upon successful login, you'll be taken to your WordPress Dashboard window for the first time. Now, we get to do more stuff that's specific to multisite setups. But first, the following screenshot shows what your WordPress Dashboard window should look like: